Welcome to the MyBuddyGreen podcast. I'm Jason Wackib, founder and co-CEO of MyBuddyGreen and your host.

Hey everyone, now we say all the time that the best exercise is the one that you'll actually do.

No one knows this better than personal trainer Jillian Michaels,

who many of you probably know from NBC's hit show The Biggest Loser. Jillian is also an eight

time New York Times best-selling author, and in today's show she shares everything she's learned

since being on The Biggest Loser, including her best nutrition and exercise tips. We also talk

about why the wellness community can feel so combative at times, especially between those with

different points of view. We wholeheartedly believe that well-being should be a conversation,

not a lecture, and I encourage you to listen to this one with an open mind. Jillian, welcome.

Thank you for having me. It's so great to have you, my fellow Miami resident,

for as long as we can have you, we'll keep you here in Miami. So, you know, look, you're an icon

in the fitness space, and it's been quite some time since you left The Biggest Loser,

and you're also older, you're wiser. Definitely older.

Older and wiser, and I'm sure you are. I can hope on wiser, but definitely not definitely older.

I have managed to accomplish that. I appreciate the humility. So, has anything changed or evolved

in terms of your philosophy since loser, or since your 20s, or still the same? What's changed

what hasn't? Well, when it comes to loser, I'll be honest with you, nothing has changed,

with regard to the work that I did with those contestants, and the reason that I did that work.

So, you have to understand that these are individuals on a life or death intervention

on a ticking clock. That at any given week, they can just go home. That's not real life. That was the

environment that we were all put in. Those were the parameters that were set for us,

and certain things need to happen under that pretense. Obviously, there needs to be an education

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